National Vocation Awareness Week - first week of November

Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 2 - 8, 2025

During Vocation Awareness Week, please pray that young people in today’s culture will hear and respond to God’s call. And do your part to encourage them to consider the priesthood and consecrated life!

God Has a Plan for Our Lives!

As Catholics, we firmly believe that God has a plan for our lives!  He calls some to marriage, some to the priesthood, and others to religious life or to live as generous single people. Fully living our own vocations—and teaching young people how to discern God’s call—is a serious duty, but also a joyful one.

Nov. 2 begins National Vocation Awareness Week, which was instituted by the U.S. Bishops in 1976, and is now celebrated the first week of November. This year, the beginning of the week falls on the weekend of All Saints Day­—a happy coincidence, because a vocation, in its fullest sense, is our path to heaven and sainthood.

During this week, please pray about how God is calling you to live your vocation more deeply. Encourage the young people in your life—children, grandchildren, students, and friends—to be open if God calls them to priesthood or religious life.